“Computer says no”
Hello everyone,
Following from today’s discussion, here are the two Guardian pieces I mentioned:
– https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/jan/16/the-new-retirement-how-an-ageing-population-is-transforming-britain: about retirement, this is the first of an on-going series
– https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/22/trumps-nationalism-response-not-globalization: about neoliberalism, this was written by Greece’s minister of finance from 2015; quite a controversial figure, but for our purposes, this speaks to the Employment Office and to the Ortner article equally:
“When the UK government forced benefit claimants to declare in writing that “my only limits are the ones I set myself”, or when the troika forced the Greek or Irish governments to write letters “requesting” predatory loans from the European Central Bank that benefited Frankfurt-based bankers at the expense of their people, the idea was to maintain power via calculated humiliation. Similarly, in America the establishment habitually blamed the victims of predatory lending and the failed health system.”
To finish off on a more cheerful note, this is what Inge was referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYklvrt-rNM. Take that, ANT!
Have a nice evening,
Maria
Contributed by MariaȘalaru on 24/01/2017
One response to ““Computer says no””
Hi Maria,
Thank you for the contributions; all very relevant to the film and the discussion we had afterwards.
And of course, I enjoyed th Little Britain clip A LOT, haha!